We always have cornbread dressing at Thanksgiving. We too put water chestnuts in ours. But I am so excited that you did this in the crockpot I can't stand it!!!! I am having the inlaws at our house this year and I think I will be doing this in the crockpot!!! I am excited to see what you will come up with next...Pumpkin Pie?!?!?! :o)

I looooove cornbread dressing and actually made it in the crock pot last Thanksgiving due to lack of oven space and it was yummy. Only thing I missed was the slightly crunchy top you get from oven baked dressing.

I just wanted to say Thank You for all your hard work. You are incredibly hilarious and it brings a smile to my face every time I read your blog! I love that it is GF - because my 4yo is, and thus, we are too. I will try your recipe today! We've tried others in the past and have hit it out of the ball park everytime! Blessings to you,Niole

I am so so so excited to try this at Thanksgiving!! I have a question for you though -I have a 1 pound bag of Pepperidge Farm cornbread stuffing mix - do you think I'd be able to use that and doctor the spices a bit, or would it possibly not be enough?Thanks in advance!!

I can't help it. I'm still laughing at the idea of free range chicken stock. I keep imagining little stockpots running around the ranch boiling their little heads off.But seriously, this sounds delicious!

Welcome to Southern Cooking! Cornbread dressing is the only one I have ever had.

I think you should hook up with Paula Dean and work together to turn her recipes into crockpot ones. Seriously. What could be better than Paula Deen and a crockpot?

BTW.. ever since you have posted your Apricot chcken, i have been making it weekly. This last week, I canned some apricots into jam and used that instead of store bought. OH MY GOODNESS. It took me ONE hour to make the jam and I will never buy store bought for this recipe ever again. SO much more apricot-y flavor. YUM!

BTW... I think you should turn this blog into a book by Blurb.com I would bet you would make a ton of money off it. I would buy it!

I have made crock pot corn bread dressing for the holidays for the last two years and it has been great. My family loves it. Cooking it in the crock pot makes it moist and it also frees up your oven so you have room to cook the other food.

Debbie,The edges of the stuffing (the stuff that hits the edge of the crock) did brown and get kind of crusty. I haven't had "regular" stuffing---just Stove Top ;-) and imagine that the oven version would get much crustier. If you'd like, you can always broil for a minute or two to crustify the top.

Can I please tell you how THRILLED I am by this recipe????? I'm having family for T-day this year and have tried various things over the years with stuffing and gluten free bread. This year I decided to go with corn bread dressing and see what happens.

So besides the fact that this is gluten free, that you cooked it in your crock pot just made my DAY! Turkey is already going in the roaster and this frees up the oven for my sweet potatoes and green beans! YAYA!!! Thank you!!!!!

Great recipe, thanks! I made it tonight with leftover cornbread from last night's chili. And I sauteed the onion and celery in the butter before adding them to the bread. I was concerned about the amount of liquid, it seemed like too much, but it worked out great - in fact, I might want to add a little more next time. My favorite part of the dish was at the bottom!

And, sorry to miss meeting you at the BlogHer VDay party - I enjoyed your presentation on the DS, but did not get a chance to introduce myself. Hopefully I will get another chance at an event soon....

I made this yesterday for our Thanksgiving dinner. It turned out great. I added a pound of browned sausage to it. One mistake I made and will correct before I make it again was using Jiffy cornbread mix, as it was a little sweet. Thanks for the recipe!

We had a gluten free, dairy free, soy free Thanksgiving here and used your stuffing recipe! It was the BEST part of the whole meal for me. We really enjoyed it and are proud of our new allergen friendly techniques thanks to our daughters' allergies!! Thanks sooo much! We really appreciate it... if I can figure out how to link a picture? I will... but it's on my blog!!